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Download Reference Manuals

There are two important hardware reference manuals you need to have, the System Reference Manual (SRM) and the Technical Reference Manual (TRM) for the ARM processor. Here's where to find them.

CircuitCo has the official reference materials for the Bone. Click on the link for the Bone Black and then click on the Hardware Files link. Here you will find a link to a pdf file with the SRM. Download it.

Finding the TRM is a bit trickier. Open the SRM you found in the previous step and find what processor it is using. (Hint: page 52) You'll find a link to a TI site that has the manual. Be sure you have the right one, it's some 18M and 4,100+ pages long.

Keep both of these in an easy to find place, we'll reference them now and then.

Set Up Git

Many of the following exercises require some extra files on the BeagleBoard. These files are stored in a git repository. We'll learn more about using git later. Here I'll just show you how to get the files.

I suggest you do this for both your host computer and your Beagle. On the Beagle use

Now go to github and generating-ssh-keys and follow the directions for installing and setting up git using the ssh-keys method. Note: The versions of git installed by opkg (1.7.7) and apt-get (1.7.9.5) aren't new enough to use the credential helper so (you need git 1.7.10 or newer) so you need to use the 2nd link above and use the ssh-keys method.

Get the Files

This will take a while since it's getting all the course files, including pdf files of the course PowerPoint. You only have to clone once for each computer. I suggest you do the same on your host computer.